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Binding Wounds, Visible & Invisible A veterans-support organization is issuing a national call to arms to make sure that those who served in uniform receive the help they need to heal on the outside … and the inside. August 2018 Woodrow Wilson Reeves was my...Viewpoint July 2018
Summertime Magic Remembering vacation trips with family … and long, languid days with boyhood friends, doing everything we wanted, and sometimes nothing at all. July 2018 For the 16th consecutive summer, we’re publishing in our July issue the best entries in our youth...Viewpoint June 2018
Just Another Electrifying Day The electric service that we often take for granted is actually a critical ingredient in the daily rhythms and rituals of family life. June 2018 Eeeekkk! Eeeekkk! Eeeekkk! A groggy head stirs in the pillow’s soft valley. Eyes open...Viewpoint May 2018
Hear the Falconer! The digital age has expanded our horizons. But it’s also shrunken our shared experience … and created some challenges for our resilient republic. May 2018 More than half a century on, it remains a vivid memory. “Duck and cover.” In the early...Viewpoint March-April 2018
Get-up-n-Go to the Gaff-n-Go! In early May, you can watch over 150 lineworkers eager to demonstrate their climbing, rescuing, power-restoring skills at the largest rodeo in the East for the pros who keep the lights on. March-April 2018 In the idol worship of youth in...Viewpoint February 2018
A Place Apart Nestled into a corner of west-central Virginia is our highest and least-populous county, Highland. While its Maple Festival annually draws tens of thousands of visitors over two weekends, a true appreciation of its wonders is only possible through visits...Viewpoint January 2018
56 American Heroes Our nation’s founders risked it all for a chance at self-governance, and ended up building the finest, freest and longest-lasting democracy in history. January 2018 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they...Viewpoint December 2017
Sounds of the Season Do you hear what we hear? Yes, above the unsettling background buzz of politicians and pundits in unending news cycles, you’ll hear it: the soft, sweet sounds that reside in the mind’s ear, gently yet insistently calling us home for the holidays....Viewpoint August 2017
Five Years After … A storm enters the record books, a word enters the common lexicon, and the power of cooperative mutual aid is proven again during the summer of 2012. August 2017 It was as if a powerful torrent breached a massive dam in the darkness, unleashing...
TASTE OF BOLIVIA. Cooperative Living magazine reader Denisse Rueda-Mendivil of Stephens City, Virginia, was surprised to read about 15 electric cooperative lineworkers from Virginia and Maryland traveling to the South American country of Bolivia to help bring electricity for the first time to several villages — including Rueda-Mendivil’s birthplace of Oruro.
She reached out to us through here, Cooperative Living’s Facebook page, saying, “The people in Oruro are kind and have amazing culinary skills. It would be a disservice not to point out the many delicious things they [the lineworkers] could eat! I could write about Oruro forever. It is a small and magical place! And while Virginia has been my home for over 20 years, where my children were born and where we have made so many wonderful memories, Oruro will always have a place in my heart.”
Many thanks to Rueda-Mendivil for graciously sharing the following Bolivian recipes: www.co-opliving.com/food/cooperative-kitchen/
Did you know that if we publish your submitted photo in the Say Cheese column, you get a $10 Amazon gift card credit? With the holidays just around the corner, every little bit of spending money counts!
Check out Lola checkin' out the photo of herself in Cooperative Living's November/December Say Cheese column! Thanks, Karen Riddle, for letting us know that you and Lola enjoyed seeing her photo in the magazine!
